Caring
for Carol
Carol says she is the only person she knows
that was the subject of a court case as a child.
At the time, her parents were fighting and
eventually filed for divorce. So, custody needed
to be sorted out... especially since divorce
wasn’t as common then as it is today.
One of her uncles from her fathers side of
the family was a lawyer, and he defended her
father in court. Eventually, her father was
awarded custody of Carol, but subsequently
left Carol in the care of her grandmother.
Carol joked that she “must be the opposite
of the Bing Crosby hit ‘You Must Have Been a
Beautiful Baby’”, humorously implying that she
must have been a terrible baby.